The power of metaphors is an ability to release the mind from the known.
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To see the universe in a grain of sand |
William Blake
To see the universe in a grain of sand
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And heaven in a wildflower, |
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
Fission
deuterium |
tritium |
And eternity in an hour.
Alexander Von Humboldt's Kosmos
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Humboldt traveled to South America, in the 1790s. |
He wrote about the whole world in a series of volumes called Cosmos, codifying knowledge about the entire Earth. |
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